A seafarer has died in a suspected case of malaria on a Greek bulker in Poland.

The Telewizja Republika website reported that the 40-year-old Filipino was taken to hospital in a critical condition from the 63,000-dwt Ilektra (built 2017) in Swinoujscie on Sunday evening.

He was rescucitated twice but could not be saved.

The RMF 24 website claimed the man was infected with malaria.